The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister is the chair of the Cabinet of Australia and thus the head of the federal executive government. Under the principles of responsible government,the prime minister is both responsible to and a member of the Commonwealth Parliament. The current prime minister is Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party,who assumed the office on 23 May 2022.
Craig Anthony Emerson is an Australian economist and former politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party,he served as the Australian House of Representatives Member for the Division of Rankin in Queensland from 1998 until 2013. Emerson also served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness,Minister for Tertiary Education,Skills,Science and Research and Minister for Competition Policy,Small Business and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.
Ian Elgin MacfarlaneHonFAusIMM is an Australian former politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He served as a minister in the Howard and Abbott governments.
Christopher John Pearce is an Australian business executive and former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2010,representing seat of Aston for the Liberal Party. He served as a parliamentary secretary in the Howard government from 2004 to 2007. Outside of his political career he has worked as a senior executive in the IT and telecommunications industries.
Geoffrey Daniel Prosser is an Australian businessman and former politician. He served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007,representing the Liberal Party,and was Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs in the Howard government from 1996 to 1997.
George Henry Brandis is an Australian former politician. He was a Senator for Queensland from 2000 to 2018,representing the Liberal Party,and was a cabinet minister in the Abbott and Turnbull governments. He was later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2022.
Richard Mansell Colbeck is an Australian politician. He has been a Senator for Tasmania since 2018,representing the Liberal Party,and served a previous term in the Senate from 2002 to 2016. Colbeck served as the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services and Minister for Sport in the Second Morrison Ministry from December 2020 until May 2022,following the appointment of the Albanese ministry. Previous to this,he was the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Youth and Sport since May 2019.
Andrew John Robb is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2016,representing the Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Trade and Investment (2013–2016) in the Abbott and Turnbull governments,and also briefly as Minister for Vocational and Further Education in the Howard government in 2007. Before entering parliament,he was the federal director of the Liberal Party and oversaw the party's return to government at the 1996 federal election.
William Forwood was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1992 to 2006,representing Templestowe Province.
Fiona Joy Nash is a former Australian politician. She served as a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2017,representing the National Party. She was the party's deputy leader from 2016 to 2017 and was a cabinet minister in the Turnbull government.
The Vice-President of the Executive Council is the minister in the Government of Australia who acts as the presiding officer of meetings of the Federal Executive Council when the Governor-General is absent. The Vice-President of the Executive Council is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia,and serves at the Governor-General's pleasure. The Vice-President is usually a senior minister in Cabinet,who may summon executive councillors and preside at council meetings when the Governor-General is not present. However,the Vice-President cannot sign Executive Council documents on behalf of the Governor-General.
Michael John Clyde Ronaldson is a former Australian politician. He was a Senator for the state of Victoria representing the Liberal Party from July 2005 until February 2016,and previously served in the House of Representatives for Ballarat from 1990 to 2001. Ronaldson served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs,the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC,and the Special Minister of State in the Abbott government from 2013 to 2015.
Victor John Perton is a former parliamentarian in the Australian state of Victoria,and formerly the Victorian Government's Commissioner to the Americas,based in San Francisco,USA.
Nigel Gregory Scullion is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for the Northern Territory from 2001 to 2019. He was a member of the Country Liberal Party (CLP) and sat with the National Party in federal parliament. He held ministerial office under four prime ministers.
Peter William Hendy is a former Australian politician. He was the Liberal member representing the Australian House of Representatives seat of Eden-Monaro in New South Wales from 2013 to 2016. Hendy served as Assistant Minister for Productivity in the First Turnbull Ministry between September 2015 and February 2016;and as Assistant Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister to the Minister for Finance from February 2016. Hendy lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Labor candidate Mike Kelly.
Christopher Maurice Pyne is a retired Australian politician. As a member of the Liberal Party,he held several ministerial positions in the Howard,Abbott,Turnbull and Morrison governments,and served as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Sturt from 1993 until his retirement in 2019.
Paul William Fletcher is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2009,representing the New South Wales seat of Bradfield. He held ministerial office in the Turnbull and Morrison governments from 2015 to 2022.
David Andrew Newington Epstein is Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of Australia. He is a public affairs specialist,and was previously a company director,corporate adviser and Chair of Communications Compliance Limited,an independent consumer compliance monitoring body for the telecommunications industry.
Maree Therese Luckins Davenport is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2002,representing Waverley Province as Maree Therese Luckins.
David Bernard Coleman is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2013 federal election,holding the New South Wales seat of Banks. Coleman served as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention from December 2020 until May 2022. He previously served as Minister for Immigration,Citizenship,Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs in the Morrison government from August 2018,although in December 2019 he took indefinite leave for personal reasons. He had earlier served as Assistant Minister for Finance in the Turnbull government from 2017 to 2018.
